User blog comment:Brigadier Barty/A Rewrite of Redwall: Loamhedge/@comment-3135907-20150405042403/@comment-3135907-20150417024222

Raspentail drew the feder, which he wasn't particularly skilled at using, and pointed it in the direction of the noise. He held it at a position resembling terse,  a classic thrust-ready stance- which was, other than a downward blow or clumsy chop, the only thing he knew to do with the thing.